Dear Annie: I am an attractive young woman with a history of anorexia. Thanks to loving friends, family and a wonderful boyfriend, I was able to recover and now enjoy eating healthful, well-balanced meals. Here's the problem. I hold a good job at a g

发表于:2019-02-15 / 阅读(37) / 评论(0) 分类 英语时差8,16

Eight pandas that survived China's deadly earthquake went on display at the Beijing Zoo earlier this month, with officials expecting the bears to attract millions of Olympic visitors. After a special welcoming ceremony, a steady stream of mainly Chin

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Former U.S. Vice President Al Gore and the U.N.'s Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change won the 2007 Nobel Peace Prize last month for their efforts to spread awareness of man-made climate change and lay the foundations for counteracting it. Gore'

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Six-year-old Lucas has a Power Rangers video game, a few robots and lots of teddy bears. But the toy he likes best is a wooden train set made by Brio, a 123-year-old manufacturer based in Sweden. I like to see the train go round and round the tracks

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Bird Communication Through Song Bird song is lovely to hear, a romantic addition to any landscape, but what exactly does it mean? Just like we must learn to talk, birds learn to sing. They listen to their parents and try to imitate them, often stumbl

发表于:2019-02-21 / 阅读(54) / 评论(0) 分类 英语时差8,16

I've recently spoken very directly with a few of my students about a malady that afflicts a certain small percentage of students in that final run of days that lead to the big one: GRADUATION DAY. That malady is not the dreaded H1N1 virus, nor bronch

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When Pixar Studios creators of computer animated films including Finding Nemo and The Incredibles made Cars, it was a bad sign. That film was supposedly about the value of old things, especially mourning the death of Route 66. But it was really about

发表于:2019-02-21 / 阅读(142) / 评论(0) 分类 英语时差8,16

Conscious, human-like machines are so popular in science fiction that it may come as a surprise to learn Artificial Intelligence researchers aren't even sure what it means to ask whether a computer will ever think. In the middle of the last century,

发表于:2019-02-23 / 阅读(79) / 评论(0) 分类 英语时差8,16

Dear Annie: My teenage son hangs around with a young lady, Berta, who seems interested in him. She is a little on the quiet side but seems pleasant and would be pretty if she would only brush her teeth. She has not brushed them in over a year. Berta'

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The plot of WALLE may be about a steaming heap of garbage, but the film is a garden of unearthly delights. Set in a future where the Earth has become covered in trash, swept by monstrous, rumbling dust storms and whose only bona fide wildlife is the

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A team of U.S. Navy audiologists conducted a hearing test on a rare beaked whale convalescing at a marine mammal rehabilitation center in the Florida Keys. The mature female whale has been tentatively identified as a Gervais' beaked whale or a Sowerb

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One of the birthplaces of cinema, Germany today possesses huge film archives crammed with 150,000 movies found on 1 million rolls of film. The film heritage is preserved by the Federal Film Archives, which operates from Berlin and six other cities. O

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A long wait, on this Moment of Science. You might have heard the old adage that glass is a liquid, and if you go over to Europe and look at the stained glass windows in the cathedrals, you'll find them thicker on the bottom than the top because they

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Yael: Don, what came first? Language or perception? Don: Hey, is this one of those questions with no answer? Y: No definitive answer, but a couple of theories. The first is that the language you speak affects how you perceive the world. D: So people

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Yael: You know how they say you should never go grocery shopping when you're hungry? Don: Everything looks delicious. Y: Yes, well, doesn't it seem to you that food is indeed more delicious when you're hungry? I don't normally care for potato chips,

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Although there has been much debate about whether race has a biological or social basis, the bottom line is that race is a psychological reality for many people. That is, many folks assign other individuals to racial categories based on their appeara

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Yael: I have a question for you, Don. Paper or plastic? Don: Not that question again, Yael. Does anyone really care whether their groceries are put in plastic or paper bags? Y: Sure they do. In fact, the city of San Francisco has taken an interest in

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Dear Annie: I am concerned about my dear friend, Laura. She has always been a drinker, but recently her drinking has increased to an alarming level. When Laura is sober, she is a vivacious, outgoing, fun-loving person. However, when she drinks, she c

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Gertrude Jekyll January, when gardeners in cold climates are forced to remain indoors, is a month to enjoy reading books about flowers. Most books about gardening include references to Gertrude Jekyll. She was an expert on herbaceous borders. Her tra

发表于:2019-03-04 / 阅读(91) / 评论(0) 分类 英语时差8,16

Dear Annie: I am 15 and almost positive that my best friend, Amanda, is anorexic. I know for a fact that she was anorexic two years ago, but she told me she had treatment and is cured. I rarely see Amanda eat lunch at school, and if I ask about it, s

发表于:2019-03-06 / 阅读(124) / 评论(0) 分类 英语时差8,16